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TITLE: S/T
ARTIST: SOD
LABEL: Decca 1971

I don't what these guys did before they started playing crazy funk with each other. Ex-Harley Davidson members or the really stoned guys who would take your tickets at the local county fair. It doesn't matter. This record is insane. The drums are really scary on songs like 'To Loose to Get Tight' parts 1 and 2.and 'I Don't Get Ya'. Its sounds like a way nastier Rare Earth. I guess Axelrod produced another album by these guys, but I just can't see David wearing overalls with no shirt on underneath while wearing a fucking cavalry hat. I wish you guys could see the photo of these guys on the back. Unbelievable.

TITLE: The Purpose
ARTIST: The Purpose
LABEL: ABC Records 1970?

I knew absolutely nothing of this record when I saw it. But the cover is perfect, a bunch of freaky lookin' brothers hanging out with this goofy white guy. The look on that guys face is so annoying, but this record is really good. I've shown it to a bunch of record freaks and nobody has ever heard of it. Its kind of a psyched out blues album with some ridiculous drums on the last track,'I Feel It'. These guys got great names too like, Fluffer, John-John, and Chocolate for cryin' out loud. Thanks goes out to Rick at Groove Yard.

TITLE: The Very Best Of
ARTIST: The Spencer Davis Group
LABEL: United Artists 1975

OK I know this a god damn collection of hits, but holy shit these songs are blazin' hot. I play 'I'm a Man' at a local bar during happy hour and all these off-duty bus drivers start cuttin' a rug on the dance floor. Bu this record is also kind of embarrassing because of Steve Winwood. What the hell happened to him?! The shit he did in the 80's is almost unforgiveable. Oh well, same goes for Stevie Wonder. I like how on the cover the whole group is puffin' on cigarettes. A must grab because these LP's are everywhere.

TITLE: Half and Half
ARTIST: Cleveland Eaton
LABEL: Gamble 1973

When Eldee Young and Redd Holt left the Ramsey Lewis Trio forming the Young-Holt Unlimted, they put out some amazing records. However Ramsey said "Shit, I'm gonna get Morris Jennings and Cleveland Eaton and really mess shit up." Which they did. This is the only solo record I've ever seen by one of those guys, but I'm praying that they are more out there somewhere. This record is excessively funky. There's a quote from Mr. Eaton on the back claiming that all of these songs are "A-sides" A pretty bold statement but true. The Goats used 'the Love Gangster' on side 2. Very hard.

TITLE: Don't Let Up
ARTIST: The Olympic Runners
LABEL: London 1976

The photo on this album cover might be the worst/best picture ever. I can't stop staring at it. It's like a beautiful, sweaty train wreck. The music definitely lives up to the cover however. The title track is unbelievable. Hard ass drum and bass groove throughout the whole song. Some of these songs are pretty disco, but there are still drum breaks all over this thing. I mean they got some guy named DeLisle Harper on the 'Funk Machine?' What the hell is that?! I'm not very good at picking out breaks but somebody told me that Shadow got his hands on this thing at one point.

TITLE: Born Again
ARTIST: Young-Holt Unlimited
LABEL: Cotillion 1971

I don't what to say about this album except for that it might be my favorite album that I have in my collection. Ramsey Lewis was seriously bummin' when these guys left his trio, and for good measure'this record is retarded! Side 2 has one of the illest breaks I've ever heard, and somewhere else on that side is the infamous 'Don't Sweat the Technique' drum/bass intro. Oh my god! I almost started crying when I first heard that. Even the standards on this LP are sick. 'Something' by George Harrison sounds like Redd and Eldee took a couple of valiums before getting into the studio. But then all the acid they took finally kicks in and the song turns into some scary carnival ride. Wonderful.

TITLE: Wild Bird
ARTIST: Hal Galper
LABEL: Mainstream 1972

Hal and the rest of these guys must have smoked some serious grass back in the early seventies. This record is all over the place. The beginning of each side starts out with really pretty, ambient style tracks. Not unlike 'In a Silent Way'. As you go farther all the instruments start sounding like they got put through some crazy effects machine. And by the end of side 1 they kick it up another notch like Emeril with some hard-ass 70's rock thing Later 70's Hal Galper records are truly awful but I would grab this one again if I saw it.

TITLE: Symbiosis
ARTIST: Bill Evans
LABEL: Pausa 1974

In my opinion, this is the most amazing thing Bill Evans ever did. He got together with composer Claus Ogerman and made an album that is filled with some intense emotion. It kind of has that soundtrack vibe in some places, which I love. The album is divided into 2 movements, the first being more traditional, and the second being practically heartbreaking. It's the regular Bill Evans trio of the 70's with Marty Morell and Eddie Gomez but with this huge orchestra behind them. Side 2 has some of the saddest piano playing I've ever heard. David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke of the 90's art band Gastr del Sol really ripped this shit off. I see this record everywhere for like 5 bucks and I always end up buying it and giving it to a friend.

TITLE: The Elements
ARTIST: Joe Henderson
LABEL: Milestone 1974

Well first of all this record has 4 songs'.Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, the hardest of these 4 being 'Earth'. Mr. Funk himself, Charlie Haden, lays down the nastiest bass line ever over Kenneth Nash's dirty drumbeat. Then Alice Coltrane comes up in the background doing some drugged out harp shit. My version has a skip right in the middle of the filth. But its OK, because usually I'm standing right over the turntable staring in disbelief as I hear this jam so I'm close by to give the needle a little nudge.